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Chicago: The Art Institute is celebrating the impressionism Centennial with a retrospective on Claude Monet. Louis Leroy, a rather acerbic art critic of the 1870's, coined the term impressionism from one of Monet's paintings, and Monet's work has always been thought the most representative of the style. The Art Institute has gathered Monet paintings together from all over the country (including several from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts), and the exhibit is supposed to be very fine...
...history subjects abated as he went deeper than any earlier painter had gone into the structure of color. At Petworth, enjoying the relaxed and eccentric patronage of Lord Egremont, he produced paintings like Music Party, Petworth: its forms dissolving in a bath of russet light would look extreme for Monet in 1895, let alone in England 60 years earlier. In the last landscapes, the world of detail and substance has been fully absorbed into the vibration of light, pure self-delighting energy manifesting itself. Except for Blake's, they are the most religious paintings of the 19th century. They...
...example, depicts a male nude from the rear, familiarly postured with one hand on his hip and his body's weight shifted to one foot. A canvas in variegated blue with purplish undertones, of a bedroom swathed in yellow light, reflects the dappled brush-work and impressionistic style of Monet...
Christina Monet's Ruth is the boniest of the three. She relies heavily on screeching to get across her tight, erratic personality, and ends up overacting. In contrast, Anne Strassner as Tillie disastrously underplays her role. Tillie is the quiet, strong independent force who, in the end, holds the burden of keeping the family together. Strassner is quiet and shy, and outwardly the right combination of fear and genius. But she does not give off the strength or the sense of vocation that Tillie has and that, ultimately, saves...
Although Zero Mostel used to quip that he banked his money in his art books filed under Monet, art is no joke to the comic actor. A painter for 40 years, Zero had his first one-man show of more than 60 recent paintings and collages in Manhattan. "Let the paintings speak for themselves," he declared. And so they do, but in the accents of modern masters like Dubuffet, Klee and Miró. Zero's authentic voice can best be savored these days as he cavorts in a national touring company production of A Funny Thing Happened...